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But there's so many brilliant moments to it!? I'm literally dumbfounded to hear someone describe Ratatouille as generic.

This one is going right in the Top Ten Most Shocking Opinions from Maintitles list. Perhaps even No. 1.

You're in at No. 2 with Independence Day.

We need something truly spectacular to budge Erik from the top spot! (Jordi?)

An episode of "Dirty Jobs" on the Discovery Channel this morning while exercising.

He goes to a choclate connfectionary shop in another American state (I forget where). He switches from person to person making different things, and at one point he's with a lady who is making a special order pile of dog poo. She makes doughy chacolate colored like dog poo, then puts bits of peanuts in it (which he thinks is awesome). And I swear to you, after it's over, they are breaking to commercial with the old grandmother writting the show's name with liquid chacolate -- that happens to look like poo poo, and she sticks the finger in her mouth anbd sucks it off, smiling.

tOY STORY's, CARS and BUG'S LIFE are at the bottom of my list too.

The later PIXAR work, from Finding Nemo onwards is the real thing imo.

Saw "The Da Vinci code" yesterday. Must admit I don't understand why it's known as a borefest. I found it thoroughly entertaining and well made. Especially the score worked wonders.

I've rated it 8 on imdb.

Going to see "Angels & demons" soon. Something tells me that I'm in for a treat.

Peter

Really? Something tells me you're not (probably the fact the movie isn't very good).

There's an enjoyable movie their I'm sure, and I can see why a lot of people might enjoy it. I just didn't enjoy it myself!

As Lee pointed pointed out some time ago, they made an action scene about driving to the Vatican when it really wasn't needed. It all seemed very actiony for very little reason, plus it felt like it was written by five year olds... five year old monkeys that it is. Zimmer's score is a fun listen on album, but in the film I thought it just made it all the more silly. All pomp and no circumstance.

So I finally watched WALL-E. I really regret I missed it in theater! I was busy (and poor) at that time.

Because I heard it's about abandoned Earth, I expected something a little more depressing ending for humans (not for WALL-E & EVE) but it isn't. I love Pixar positivity. The story is simple and the characters are also simple in a good way.

The animation is the most amazing. WALL-E doesn't have humanized face and almost doesn't speak, but all his emotions are there! I always thought many of the recent animated feature films rely on dialogues too much, and Finding Nemo was one of those, but this time the same director did the opposite. I remembered how expressive Luxo Jr. was... they made it again.

I don't like the design of humans though... it's hard to believe that those usual Pixar people originally looked like the live-action people. They should be more realistic.

This is not Ratatouille, which I loved and wanted to see it again as soon as it finished. But still, WALL-E is another great movie from Pixar. Looking forward to UP aka Old Carl's Flying House (nice Japanese title ).

Seriously? I had my problems with the book, and the movie was a lot worse. While I agree about the dragon, which really IS beautifully done, there are more shortcomings than I can count, first of all the fact that FOX (who else?!) cut the movie down like a beast they wanted to slaughter. I´ve never seen so many photos from scenes that didn´t make it into the movie than for this one. They left out a lot of stuff that would have been needed for the sequel, as if they knew there wouldn´t be one. Jeremy Irons is the only actor who even tries to act like it WAS some kind of LOTR rip-off. The rest would have been fine for a sub-standard episode of Hercules. And don´t get me started on the Dwarf city that had no Dwarfs in it.

Beside the fact that the story is a painfully direct rip-off from Star Wars.

Believe me, I wanted to like this movie, and you know how easily I´m satisfied. It just didn´t happen here.

Almost as bad as his American accent in The Island. I have a massive man-crush on Ewan McGregor, but I do wish he'd stay away from attempting accents.

I meant to watch "Later...With Jools Holland" the other night because The Spaghetti Western Orchestra were on. But thanks to YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVzjvRbv8xw

Excellent! Thanks Alan, I missed it too.